Housing and feeding inmates has been an issue since we began housing and feeding inmates. It's like everything in government, we want criminals behind bars but we don't want to pay to keep them there. Feed them bread and water and make them turn big rocks into little rocks with a sledge hammer.
That's fiction, not reality
Sheriff Grover Smith is one of 49 Alabama sheriffs who has been named in a lawsuit claiming he's not turning over documents that show whether or not he personally gained from leftover money intended to feed inmates. That question will be answered as it travels through the...
